MATT SHEAHAN

I wish my wife had been listening to a recent radio feature which discussed the growth in popularity of buying second-hand clothes. Had she heard it I’d like to think the sustained pressure to clear out my sailing wardrobe would have eased.

Ignoring the fact that the interviewee deliberately avoided saying ‘second-hand’ and replaced this otherwise accurate expression with ‘pre-loved’, I was nonetheless interested in the argument that clothes should be like art,